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blackish, well-marked, reaching from costa half across wing, posteriorly pale-edged ; 

 first and second lines blackish, externally edged with whitish-ochreous, first sinuate 

 outwards below costa and below middle, second with upper f forming a rectangular 

 angulation outwards ; subterminal whitish-ochreous, edged with dark fuscous, irregularly 

 dentate. Hindwings grey. (Plate IV. fig. 14.) 



I specimen, Kaholuamano, Kauai, in April. This example does not show the 

 abdominal crest, but it may have been abraded. 



(4) Hypetiodes sarothrura, sp. nov. 



cT. 19 mm. Head and thorax glossy golden-fuscous, thorax posteriorly suffused 

 with coppery-purplish. Palpi about 3. Abdomen roughly tufted with whitish hairs on 

 sides from middle to apex. Forewings golden-fuscous, base coppery-tinged ; an oblique 

 ochreous-yellow costal mark near base, edged on each side with blackish ; first line 

 ochreous-yellow, edged posteriorly with black and then in disc with white, thrice 

 sharply dentate ; a short oblique pale ochreous-yellow streak from middle of costa ; a 

 thick irregular black longitudinal streak in disc from first to second line ; second line 

 ochreous-yellow, anteriorly blackish-edged, posteriorly broadly suffused with white, 

 below middle rectangularly broken inwards ; subterminal line on lower half white, 

 waved, interrupted, above absorbed in suffusion of second ; three whitish dots on 

 posterior portion of costa ; a terminal series of small dark fuscous spots. Hindwings 

 with veins 3 and 4 short-stalked ; fuscous-whitish ; a faint fuscous transverse discal 

 mark. 



I specimen, Olaa, Hawaii, in July. 



(5) Hypenodes altivolans Butl. 



Scoparia altivolans Butl. Ent. Mo. Mag. xvii. p. 9. Hypenodes altivolans Butl. 

 Ann. Mag. N. H. (5) vii. 1881, p. 325. 



^?. II 22 mm. Forewings varying from pale brownish-ochreous to dark 



fuscous, with slight purplish reflections, sometimes whitish-sprinkled ; a variable black 

 dot beneath costa near base, sometimes connected with costa, sometimes followed by 

 a yellow-ochreous dot; first line more or less blackish-marked, sometimes yellow- 

 ochreous, angulated above middle, twice or thrice dentate ; second more or less pale or 

 sometimes yellow-ochreous, irregular, oblique, more or less sinuate outwards in middle, 

 more or less blackish-edged on one or both sides, often followed by a partial band of 

 pale ochreous mixed with whitish, especially towards costa; median line sometimes 

 indicated by a pale mark on costa ; a variable black discal spot, round or crescentic or 



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